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Here is Wes with his parents before his graduation from Fresno State in 1987. It was a wild ceremony from the get go. They seated the graduates by departments on the football feild . Wes sat with the Math Department and they were pretty calm compared to the the nursing department. They started drinking champagne as soon as it started. When a bottle was emptied, they would shove it into the grass and cheer. I couldn't help but wonder what his parents thought, as they had only been to his brothers graduations at BYU . We left Keith with a babysitter and that was an excellent call. They did not walk up and get diploma, rather were called by departments then stood and as if by magic, they were done. This is me with my parents on my graduation day in 2006 from CSU Stanislaus. It was a relatively quiet ceremony with a few beach balls. Everyone received a diploma and it took a few hours to get through it. We had 5 children and I didn't invite them. It started at 8am on a Saturday...